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Because the vast majority of people in Columbia don't care enough to bother. It's not even that noticeable where they put it unless you are looking for it.
I wish I had a few thousand Confederate Flags that I could sell to the Flag Burners and the great new interest in the Confederate Flag that has been generated by the Political Correctness Nazis.
Don't believe in the rule of law/trespassing, eh? That attitude seems prevalent these days.
For those who believe in the rule of law, we say..... "if you break the law, you get arrested and pay the consequences."
And heck, what if person "A" doesn't like the cross outside displayed on a church front lawn because it doesn't fit into their belief system? Do they now have the right to remove that cross?
Slip slip slip down the slippery slope with your attitude my friend....scary.
In this context, the saying "bless her/his heart" is not a compliment. It expresses derision.
I still don't get this whole flag thing. I understand that 150+ years ago the flag was a symbol of the South and part of their culture and economy prior to losing the Civil War was to own and work black slaves. The slaves were property, oppressed and some were maltreated by their owners. Some of course were prized property like a fine horse and were treated better. We have seen this on the big screen recently in such movies as "Django unchained" and "12 Years a Slave".
In the 1950s, the flag was appropriated as a symbol against the civil rights movement. It has a more recent history than 150+ years ago.
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The Nazis had their flag that struck terror into anyone that didn't fit in. There are actually people still alive today that remember what living in a concentration camp was like or they may have lost loved ones.
Is there a Nazi flag flying over government property somewhere in the world that I don't know about? In Germany it's illegal to show the Nazi flag except in the context of anti-National Socialism or for educational purposes.
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My wife is Irish and she is old enough to remember what it was like living under the opprresive union jack of the England. She has relatives that were held, questioned and imprisoned as political prisoners.
As a result of her first hand experience she doesn't like to see the British flag but she is not demanding that it be taken down when she sees one.
Except for Northern Ireland is there somewhere in Ireland where the Union Jack is flown on government property?
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If the Confederate flag is a symbol of slavery to some we are talking about 150+ years ago.
No, it has a more recent history.
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My point is that there are flags all over the place that stir a negative feeling in someone. I wonder how the Native American Indians feel about the American Flag as it flies over land that was once theirs??
True enough but it doesn't fly on their actual land (reservations) now, does it?
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This woman who climbed the pole should be fined for trespassing and the flag put back up until there is a law made to take it down.
At one time there was a battle for civil rights, which was understandable. It seems that low paying food service jobs and a flag are the new battlefronts. It’s not a flag that blacks should be concerned with, but white liberals who’ve proven time and time again to be the most destructive force to black communities.
Liberals are actually disproportionately responsible for the progress that many groups, not just African-Americans, have made in this country. I am confused about this claim, are you saying that liberals are responsible for racism? That liberals were behind segregation and the Jim Crow laws? The part of this country that has had the worst track record by far when it comes to respecting human rights, the South (although it has made great strides over the last few decades), is definitely not a liberal bastion.
I guess by that standard what’s next? Do we tear down the Alamo because it offends Mexico?
This remove the confederate flag nonsense reminds me of those liberals at UC Irvine who were offended by the US Flag and voted to have it removed.
It really is time to throw political correctness in the garbage. IMO political correctness is just another tool for the intellectually dishonest.
Would you feel differently about the Confederate flag if you were an African-American Southerner?
It isn't a case of removing something from the South Carolina state house grounds merely because it offends someone. People can be offended by anything. This is a case of reversing a decision to begin flying the flag over the state house grounds in the 60s as a sign of defiance against the civil rights movement. It is a sign of an attempt to stymie an effort to do away with an oppressive system that treated a significant part of the state's population as being lesser due to their race. To say that you shouldn't take the flag down because people can be offended by anything fails to acknowledge how big of a race problem South Carolina had and, in many respects, still has. Yes, people can be offended by many things that are silly.This isn't even close to being such a case. And I don't think it is just liberals who can see the problem. Yes, liberals can be very extreme to, but they are disproportionately responsible for the social progress that many groups, not just African-Americans, have made over the last century and a half.
As a matter of free speech people are allowed to display it on their private property, but given the history of the Confederate flag it should not be displayed on public property, particularly in places where it's display can be traced back to some sort of show of defiance against the civil rights movement, as is the case here.
As for the PC comments,anything can be taken to extremes, but do you REALLY want to go back to the days when people can be openly degraded and treated like they were not too many decades ago? To me, that would be a pretty crude state of affairs.
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That attitude seems prevalent these days.
Southern reverse logic, eh?
